Literary studies: poetry and poets

A world of dewAnd within every dewdropA world of struggle The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and graceand its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism.

Now considered America's foremost colonial poet, Edward Taylor was virtually unknown until some of his poems were discovered in the Yale library and published in 1937.

This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane.

Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States.

The book contains short stories and poetry.

A Collection of Poems inspired by the everyday cares and oppositions which attempts to rob morale.

David Ferry, the acclaimed poet and translator of Gilgamesh, has made an inspired translation of the complete Odes of Horace, one that conveys the wit, ardor and sublimity of the original with a music of all its own.

John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century; his collected poems sold more than two million copies.

"e;Engagingly warm and witty blend of literary comment and memoir,"e; fourteen essays from one of Poland's most prominent contemporary poets (Publishers Weekly).

This essay collection includes the renowned poet's Nobel lecture, literary criticism, reflections on Caribbean life, and more.

The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works.

A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell"e;Oh!

A noted biographer and poet illuminates the unique woman who wrote the greatest American love poetry of the twentieth centuryWhat Lips My Lips Have Kissed is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine.

Heaney's ten lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, collected here in The Redress of Poetry, explore the poetry of a wide range of writers, from Christopher Marlowe to John Clare to Oscar Wilde.

A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century.

Herbert Leibowitz's "e;Something Urgent I Have to Say to You"e; provides a new perspective on the life and poetry of the doctor poet William Carlos Williams, a key American writer who led one of the more eventful literary lives of the twentieth century.

AMERICA, BEFORE THE STORM Portrait of a NationBy Gerald Lewis Geiger (Copyright 2005)This is a collection of poems in rhythmic and rhymed verse, about America, her place in Atlantica and the World, and a Time in Our Age that brought out the best in us.

El moro Nez, de la regin de Tlayacapn, es lo que se llama en Mxico un granicero, una persona que por una especial cercana con el rayo, ya sea por accidente o por predisposicin de su naturaleza, adquiere poderes curativos para con los humanos o los animales, y que cuando se acerca la tormenta recibe a los tlaloques que traen la lluvia para los campesinos.

sta recopilacin de memorias migrantes, presenta una sola historia.

In this fun Japanese children's book, kids will learn to create haiku--elegant and simplistic Japanese poems.

Sifting the Ashes chronicles jaelynns life as an African-American baby boomer facing new challenges that her mother never faced: Corporate America, instant material success, and growing up in an sexually open society.

Many people think Santa Claus (or Saint Nicholas) isnt real, and they laugh at those of us, young and old who believe in him.

This volume examines the treatment and expression of love in medieval literature and art.

This comprehensive reference work is designed to be a single source to which readers may turn for guidance on dramatic theory and practice.

Homeric Stitchings is the first extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

As a pioneer in Canada in the early 1800s, Catharine Parr Traill was one of the first writers to record the Ontario wilderness in literary and scientific detail, and her stories for young people became part of a new focus on young people.

As a pioneer in Canada in the early 1800s, Catharine Parr Traill was one of the first writers to record the Ontario wilderness in literary and scientific detail, and her stories for young people became part of a new focus on young people.

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A reviewer of JOHN FRASERS widely praised Violence in the Arts (1973) spoke of encountering in it an extremely agile and incessantly active mind that illuminates almost every subject that he touches.

The lonely litttle China Doll must risk everything to find what has been lost.

From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you.

With a rare blend of grace, warmth, and scholarship, Leslie Stainton raises the stakes of our appreciation for the greatest of Spain's modern poets, Federico Garca Lorca.

Frank Kermode is one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the art of criticism in the English speaking world.

This book - a most important and original contribution to the literature of interpretative criticism -contains the Clark Lectures delivered at Cambridge University in 1946.

First published in 1982, this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F.

Dame Edith Sitwell died while this autobiography was in the course of printing.

First published in 1943, this is a selection of writings from Dr.

First published in 1946, following on from Portrait of Elmbury, the second in the series shows an England which now seems almost foreign in its remoteness.

The definitive single-volume edition of the work of the greatest poet of the First World War2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War.

An extraordinary book of real passionate research Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War.

'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing.

Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poetWilfred Owen tragically died in battle just a few days before the Armistice.

Felix Dennis, notorious multimillionaire publisher, first started writing poetry after a life-threatening illness.

Multi-millionaires are not supposed to write poetry.

2013 marks Dannie Abse's 90th birthday.

Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it.

In this, Matthew Sweeney's eighth full-length collection, the disarming fabulist and mythmaker steps out on his own into fresh territory.

Representing the best of ten books and twenty years' work, Matthew Sweeney's Selected Poems is a magical mystery tour into his strange, unsettling world.

From Dylan Thomas s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work.